Gabrielle Kaplan-Mayer, at The Blogs

Mar 18, 2020, 3:48 AM

I can’t see my son who has autism in person because of the coronavirus

The author and her son, George. (Courtesy of Gabrielle Kaplan-Mayer)

On our last routine visit, I didn’t know that it would be the last moment I would be in the same room with him, indefinitely

Oct 24, 2016, 10:40 PM

TDF’s Autism Theater Initiative: Making Broadway Accessible

If you’re a theater lover like me, it’s likely you remember the first play or musical you ever saw. Mine was a community theater production of “The Princess and the Pea” that my grandmother took my sister and me to...

Aug 12, 2016, 8:09 PM

Teaching Our Children About Physical Differences

Note: This blog originally appeared on newsworks. When I was a child, these are some of the things that I loved to do when I visited my Great-Uncle Mace: Lay next to him on the floor while he spread out the...

About Me

Gabrielle Kaplan-Mayer is a writer and educator based in Philadelphia. She is pleased to share the release of "The Little Gate Crasher," a memoir of her extraordinary great uncle, Mace Bugen. Other recent books include The Creative Jewish Wedding Book and The Kitchen Classroom. Gabby is a featured blogger for Newsworks Philly Parenting and writes for and edits The New Normal: Blogging Disability. As director of “Whole Community Inclusion” at Jewish Learning Venture, she leads disability awareness training across the Philadelphia Jewish Community. She has also been an educator at Congregation Mishkan Shalom in Roxborough for 18 years.